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“So do we need anything special to collect them?” Julia asked.

I shook my head. “Jaka flowers are poisonous when wet, and they are delicate. For this reason they are considered worthless for collecting. They also have bright purple flower pedals. As long as you don’t step on them, that should be good.”

Julia nodded as she looked down. We were in the area my divination pointed too, but we were still essentially looking for a few tiny flowers in a forest. They’d be easy to miss.

“How many do we need?” she asked.

“Six at the very least, but personally, I would be happy if we collected more like fifteen but that number also assumes they are fully grown flowers.”

“Fifteen?” she asked. “How many groups do they tend to grow in?”

“Two to three.”

“We might be out here all day then.”

I nodded.

This was important, so it wasn’t like much else was important.

“I think I got a few,” Julia said.

Turning I saw the flowers she was looking at, and true to her ranger roots, she was looking at four Jaka flowers. I smiled.

By the time we found all fifteen, plus a few extra for good measure, it was well into the afternoon. We were both starving so we decided to call it a day.

As soon as we got back to the hotel, I was going to need to process the flowers, Julia was holding them in a bag for now.

We ate at a small cafe, curtsy of Julia who had some coins. I felt bad for not having any way of paying for my little sister. Oh well. Hopefully Jaka tea would be a fitting repayment.

Now all we had to do is process the flowers. Things were looking up.

“Iris? What happened to your hair?” Henry asked as he looked at us. “You found her! Why, why did you lie!”

“My name is Julia!” she shouted. “I don’t know you.”

I stepped in front of her. “Don’t do this.”

He snapped his fingers. Two men stepped up from behind him. Fuck. I tried to warn him.